There was aware of her true love, at length come riding by – This is a couplet from the Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington. What figure of speech is used by the poet ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Kyd
   C. John Dryden
   D. John Donne

2. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’ ?

   A. Tennyson
   B. Browning
   C. Swinburne
   D. D.G. Rossetti

3. I knew him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary political modes of action. Who is speaking ?

   A. Brown
   B. Brom Bones
   C. Rip
   D. Dupin

4. Which figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem ?

   A. Onomatopeia
   B. Metonymy
   C. Alliteration
   D. Hyperbole

5. Which of the following poetic lines is an example of a couplet ?

   A. “Into my head there will come / a beach of cotton, a dock where from.”
   B. “To kiss the sky / to be the sun / is to live forever.”
   C. “I heard a car crash / just as I died.”
   D. “Death comes for all of us / even you.”

6. Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?

   A. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved
   B. Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
   C. The concluding lines of any poem
   D. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners

7. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet ?

   A. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
   B. a two line stanza
   C. a poem of lamentation
   D. a song for mourning

8. “He glanced with rapid eyes_____________ they looked like frightened beads”. The figure of speech used here is ?

   A. Metahor
   B. Oxymoron
   C. Simile
   D. Irony

9. ________ is a unit of speech which is at a level higher than the speech sound or phoneme ?

   A. Syllable
   B. Stress
   C. Intonation
   D. Pitch.

10. Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’ ?

    A. Elliot
    B. Kipling
    C. Cummings
    D. Brooke